I had take some shots two other times but I was never happy with them. At night, everyone's asleep. The only person up other than me is Lao Tsu, so he featured prominently in my quest to find something to snap at. I thought I'd give it another go tonight. I thought about using a long exposure and a low light source to make a shot that looks like it could have been in daylight. The other night, though, I was remarking on the shadows cast by the computer screen and how even a light source it is. I thought that, if I could get Lao Tsu to sleep in the right place, I could get a picture of Lao Tsu and the shadow he cast on the cushion behind him as if it were (don't laugh at me) the lao tsu shaped shadow left behind after a nuclear blast (only in negative). It was significant because the light source was the tv and so it was comparing the television to the nuclear bomb and some other hippy crap I lost interest in as soon as I tried to explain it to myself. It didn't matter, though, because Lao Tsu refuses to sleep anywhere but right up on the cushion. He moved repeatedly (which is a pain because I have to focus with the lights on, turn them all out, then snap the pictures. There's no autofocus on this antique lens because the AF back then was mechanically driven by the camera itself and neither my camera or the OM lens adapter has a mechanical system to drive the AF. Even if there was autofocus the flash would be needed to focus in the dark and the cat does not like the flash. So fuck it. I just took the picture as it was. And now that I've finished and put the camera away he's being extra cute with his paw over his eyes. Adorable little bastard.